Full Stack Sofware Engineer

 Junior/Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (m/f/x)

Company
The Université catholique de Louvain is a French-speaking university present in six different locations, including Charleroi. With a multicultural and multilingual environment, UCLouvain is open to the world and hosts students and researchers from around the globe. The university is highly ranked internationally and is a major employer in Wallonia and Brussels. UCLouvain operates faculties, research institutes, and administration to fulfill its three missions of teaching, research, and service to society.
e-OMIX is a new project launched a UCLouvain and aims at establishing a new bioinformatic hub for sharing and leverage omics data (collected from different platforms quantifying cellular molecular content) across different laboratories in Brussels and Wallonia for research and clinical purposes.
 
Role
•         Develop solutions for the storage, exchange, and interoperability of large biological datasets.
•         Provide insight on the platform architecture and development.
•         Implement pre-built bioinformatics pipelines processing single- and multiomics data.
•         Help with designing automated or semi-automated statistical analyses.
•         Develop and deploy specific modules to optimize experimental workflow, such as Quality Control or sample tracing.
•         Supervise and interact with other team members to coordinate project development (junior developer and bioinformaticians).
 
Qualifications
•         PhD or master’s degree with at least five years of work experience (senior position), or master’s degree (junior position) in computer science, software engineering, or any related field.
•         Demonstrable experience with the following tools:
–         Object-oriented programming (Python, Java, or C++)
–         Data science, machine learning and/or statistical computing (Python or R)
–         Databases (PostgreSQL)
–         Responsive Web applications (Spring, Vue.js, Bootstrap, etc.)
–         Cloud architectures
–         Professional software development (e.g., unit testing, version control, continuous integration, release cycles, Git, etc.)
•         Interest in biological or medical research
•         Ability to work both autonomously and within a team.
•         Good written and oral communication skills, English proficiency

Additional assets
•         Experience in biology, bioinformatics, health informatics.
•         Containerization (Kubernetes or Docker Swarm) and virtual machines.
•         REST APIs.
•         Health data interoperability standards (HL7 FHIR).
•         Knowledge of R’s Bioconductor environment.
•         Familiarity with open-source software distribution.
 
Our offer
•         A collaborative work environment: The project is conjointly led by the Computational Biology (CBIO) and Computer Engineering (INGI) units from UCLouvain and will involve other major academic actors.
•         Hybrid schedule (up to 50% of remote work)
•          On-site work in the A6K startup incubator in Charleroi, with occasional travels to UCLouvain’s Brussels or Louvain-La-Neuve campuses
•         Flexible work hours.
•         Competitive salary.
•         One-year fixed-term contract, with a possibility of extension.
•         Reimbursement of public transportation cost or bike plan.